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John H. McArthur | About
his tenure provided a continuing base for research and teaching in entrepreneurship. Another venture McArthur nurtured was the Social Enterprise Initiative, launched in 1993 with a gift from the late John C.... View Details
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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
said, there are certain deadlines that must be met with the goal of keeping the majority of the group focused on the same topics to maximize social interactions. Details on individual course or program requirements are communicated to... View Details
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Recent Alumni - Alumni
social event planning, programming content oversight, social media outreach, and fundraising. Volunteer Locally Through an HBS Club or Association HBS Clubs and Associations... View Details
- 06 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2023-24 Leadership Fellows
McNair Professor of Marketing, Emeritus, and co-chairman of the Social Enterprise Initiative. “HBS educates leaders who make a difference in the world, and as the Leadership Fellows grow in their careers,... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise
- October 2022 (Revised September 2024)
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mPharma: Scaling Access to Affordable Primary Care in Africa
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ben Creo
mPharma hopes to scale up to create the largest pan-African healthcare company ever to provide much-needed primary care in retail pharmacies; a reliable, fairly priced supply of drugs; and micro-insurance for drugs. They must prioritize launching a telemedicine... View Details
Keywords: Africa; Pharmaceutical Companies; Pharmacy Benefit Manager; Health Care; Health Care And Treatment; Health Care Costs; Health Care Delivery; Health Care Entrepreneurship; Telehealth; Health Equity; Corporate Strategy; Social Entrepreneurship; Equity; Growth and Development Strategy; Expansion; Product Launch; Customer Value and Value Chain; Social Enterprise; Multinational Firms and Management; Pharmaceutical Industry; Health Industry; Africa
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Ben Creo. "mPharma: Scaling Access to Affordable Primary Care in Africa." Harvard Business School Case 323-033, October 2022. (Revised September 2024.)
- 23 Jun 2023
- News
Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
the Charles River, an Enterprise Research Campus that will include two lab buildings, a University conference center, a hotel, and two residential towers, is projected to come online by the end of the decade, according to Carl Rodrigues,... View Details
- 08 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency
The enterprise continued to make money even as it turned slowly to lose market share in a post-monopoly world. The positive net income helped greatly in supporting complacency. In frustration, his change agents waited and waited for a... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter
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A Tradition of Philanthropy - Alumni
Ethics program, which is now an integral part of the MBA Program. 1995 John C. Whitehead (MBA 1947) makes a founding gift to create the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative . 1997 HBS opens the California... View Details
- 03 Nov 2023
- News
Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum
Clubs News Clubs News Global Networking Night 2023 Another successful Global Networking Night (GNN) is in the books, after alumni around the world held nearly 60 separate events on October 25. The annual GNN features alumni gatherings—some in person, some... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- June 2016
- Case
Big Spaceship: The Evolving Agency
By: Boris Groysberg and Matthew G. Preble
This case discusses the evolution of Big Spaceship, an advertising and marketing agency, from a product-focused business to a relationship-oriented one as clients seek deeper and more meaningful long-term partnerships. The 15-year-old company had already evolved... View Details
Keywords: Digital Marketing; Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Marketing; Organizational Structure; Organizational Design; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Social Media; Advertising Industry; United States; New York (city, NY)
Groysberg, Boris, and Matthew G. Preble. "Big Spaceship: The Evolving Agency." Harvard Business School Case 416-003, June 2016.
- 05 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software
their direct control, and that is something that few managers fully realize at this point,” says Nagle. “Many are starting to realize it, but I think it’ll be one of the bigger shifts that traditional management goes through as the digital revolution marches on.”... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
with significant rewards," says Stacey M. Childress (MBA '00), director of the School's Initiative on Social Enterprise (ISE), which coordinates the fellowship program. Childress, herself a former fellow who... View Details
- 04 Apr 2022
- What Do You Think?
As Disney Board Chair, What Would You Advise CEO Bob Chapek Regarding 'Don’t Say Gay'?
parks—responsible for spreading “pixie dust” for Disney’s “guests”—were supporters of these groups. Within Disney, employees were protesting on social media and organizing walkouts from company theme parks... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 May 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating the First HBS African-American Mother-Daughter Duo
that she might not have felt as comfortable with otherwise, like following her passion to found and build The Partnership, a sustainable social enterprise that has forever changed the fabric of Boston’s... View Details
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Detour: My Unexpected, Amazing, Life Changing Journey With OnStar
By: Chet Huber
Detour is the story behind the launch of OnStar’s now well known blue button, as told through the eyes of its founder and CEO of over fourteen years, Chet Huber. It’s a personal narrative that describes the events that led up to General Motors’ unexpected choice... View Details
Keywords: General Motors; OnStar; Technological Innovation; Business Startups; Transportation; Safety; Personal Development and Career; Creativity; Success; Business History; Auto Industry
Huber, Chet. Detour: My Unexpected, Amazing, Life Changing Journey With OnStar. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011.
- 11 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Meet the MBA Class of 2020
BREAKTHROUGHS PEOPLE THOUGHT IMPOSSIBLE A YEAR AGO.” HOME REGION Wayne, PA UNDERGRAD EDUCATION College of William & Mary, Economics, 2014 PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Verily, Google, Symplivety HBS ACTIVITIES Digital Impact Initiative, The Future Society, Health Care Club,... View Details
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
under the Rug: How Unethical Actions Lead to Forgetting of Moral Rules Authors:Lisa L. Shu and Francesca Gino Publication:Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (in press) Abstract Dishonest behavior can have various psychological... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Quiet Quitters Need More Than Money to Re-Engage
Employees are feeling alienated Abdelal and DeLong see all of these phenomena as stemming from a common cause: the rise of contractual relationships with employees in place of emotional investment. “We’ve moved more and more from the human side of View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
Derek T. Ferguson (MBA 1990) could be mistaken for a minister by fellow commuters on the train from Connecticut to Manhattan. Yet his calling is not to the pulpit, but to the midtown headquarters of Bad Boy Worldwide Entertainment Group, a privately held View Details
- 26 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
ClimateCAP 2023 & ClimateCAP Fellowship
connections to industry leaders in this space. For example, the fellows had an in-person session during the ClimateCAP Conference in February, where we critiqued and offered feedback on each other’s project ideas. For this summer, our team is also leveraging resources... View Details